Jerry Rice Jr. is expected to have surgery to repair torn cartilage in a shoulder.

The undrafted rookie wide receiver suffered the injury Thursday during practice at the Washington Redskins' training camp in Richmond, Va.

Rice, the son of the 49ers great and a former standout at Menlo School in Atherton, was considered a long shot to make the NFL team.

Coach Jay Gruden suggested the team hopes Rice will end up on injured reserve. To get there, he will have to clear waivers, unless the team waits until the regular season to make the move, which appears unlikely.

The injury occurred as Rice worked against cornerback Richard Crawford in a one-on-one drill. Rice reached for a pass, lost balance and landed awkwardly on his left arm.

If it is a season-ending injury, the Redskins could cut him and negotiate a financial settlement.

"We'll see what happens with (Redskins general manager) Bruce (Allen) and how he handles that," Gruden said.

Rice played college ball at UCLA and UNLV but did not excel at either place. He played in nine games for UCLA and caught nine passes. he played in all 11 games for UNLV and caught 11 passes.

Rice had brief tryouts with the Baltimore Ravens and 49ers before signing with Washington.

The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va., reports that Trent Murphy is "probably the biggest standout" of the Washington Redskins' training camp so

far. His "combination of speed, strength and preparedness has endeared him to coaches."

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The linebacker, a second-round pick from Stanford, has a fan in Redskins head coach Jay Gruden.

"Trent's long and has the ability to bend, and that's very exciting," Gruden told Redskins.com. "We can move him around. The progress that he's made from the OTAs, his strength is getting better, the knowledge of the game. He's going to work at it. He's a true football-playing grinding machine. He loves the game. He loves to play. He loves to work. He loves to study. He's just going to continue to get better."

Brothers Brook and Robin Lopez, former Stanford stars, are in Russia on an NBA-sponsored tour designed to grow the sport there. They took part in a clinic as part of a streetball tournament Thursday in Moscow. Today they are in Perm to open and promote a 10-court facility built by the NBA.

Brook is the starting center for the Brookly Nets; Robin starts at center for the Portland Trail Blazers.

"For the most part, as an American, my view of Russia mostly shaped through spy movies and superhero comic books, along with a few history classes I've taken," Robin wrote in a travel blog at forwardcenter.net. "So it's nice to see the real Russia, not the vilified version you see in fiction. And despite some frosty relations between the United States and Russia, I haven't noticed any animosity at all. People have been very friendly and welcoming right from the start. Nothing standoffish or anything of the sort."

Robin is known throughout social media as a bit of character. He wrote about the response from strangers on the streets of Moscow, including what he describes as a universal response to seeing 7-foot-tall guys.

"A lot of the girls are surely turning their heads because of my Harrison Ford-ish good looks," he wrote, "which again, is a typical response anywhere in the world."

One of the first acts undertaken by Jeremy Lin as a Los Angeles Laker was to feed the city's homeless along Skid Row as part of his work with the Jeremy Lin Foundation. Lin, the former Palo Alto High point guard traded to the Lakers from the Houston Rockets last month, donned an apron and dished out food.

Jeremy Guthrie gave up five runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings but got the win for the Kansas City Royals in a 7-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The former Stanford ace improved to 6-9.

Chad Marshall (Stanford) is questionable for the Seattle Sounders tonight as they play the San Jose Earthquakes to open the 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara (TV: NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.). Marshall, a two-time Major League Soccer defender of the year who was recently named a league all-star, has missed the Sounders' past two games after being in a car accident last weekend.

Todd Dunivant, another former Stanford player in MLS, is coming back from surgery to repair an abdominal injury. The Los Angeles Galaxy left back could make a start in the United Soccer Leagues' Pro Division (a minor league for MLS) before playing for the Galaxy.

"He's doing well," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said on the team's website. "He had a good training session, but I haven't decided yet (when he'll return)."

Cameron Fleming, a rookie tackle from Stanford, is progressing early in the New England Patriots' training camp. The fourth-round draft pick leveled a defensive tackle on back-to-back plays in a one-on-one drill, Chatsports.com reports. He has mostly been playing right tackle but is expected to play guard and tackle as a reserve.

Christian Dean, a first-round pick of the Vancouver Whitecaps in MLS last spring, has been chosen to take part in the U.S. national soccer team's under-23 camp that begins Sunday in the Bahamas. The camp is the first of its kind for the U.S. program, which is beginning to look at choosing players for the Olympics. The camp will include a friendly against the Bahamas' national team.

"The chance to get this group of players together and get ahead of the curve in preparation for Olympic qualifying in two years' time is huge," U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann said in a statement. "... It's critical that we have as many camps and games as possible so we can build a deep pool of talent that can qualify for Brazil."

Dean is a 6-foot-3, 198-pound defender from East Palo Alto who played at St. Francis High in Mountain View. He was taken with the third overall choice in the MLS draft after starring at Cal. He has appeared in three games for the Whitecaps, notching 33 minutes as a reserve.